Evaluation of college magazine
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The document evaluates a college magazine created by the author. It summarizes that the magazine follows some conventions of professional magazines, such as using direct address images and a masthead, but is missing other conventions like an issue date. The author constructed the magazine in Photoshop, which they found challenging to learn, and took photos with a professional camera rather than a phone. The strengths are following some conventions, but there is still room for improvement to achieve a more professional look with more magazine experience and Photoshop skills.
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Evaluation task 7
The student felt they progressed in their skills and application of conventions from their preliminary magazine cover to their final magazine cover and contents pages. For the final pieces, they used more techniques like varying font sizes and styles to make elements stand out, included things like barcodes to seem more professional, and chose fonts and content that would appeal more to their target audience of students. They also learned skills like proper image editing and formatting to create magazine pages that follow conventions and look polished. Overall, they felt their understanding of techniques and ability to create professional-looking magazine pages developed between the two assignments.
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The author has learned several new skills in Photoshop and InDesign from working on a school magazine project. These include adding lighting filters and layers in Photoshop, incorporating better fonts, and learning layout conventions like barcodes that make the magazine look more professional. The author also gained experience with more complex page layouts in InDesign, including adding things like borders behind text. Overall, the author's understanding of Photoshop and InDesign improved greatly over the course of the project.
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The student learned how to make their magazine look more professional by using small effects and increased their knowledge of programs like Photoshop and InDesign. They were able to edit images in Photoshop and find better fonts on websites like dafont.com for their music magazine. They also added details like a barcode. Their contents page looked more 3D using features in InDesign and was brighter using large colored blocks and transparency effects, showing progression from their preliminary task to the full product.
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While creating a magazine, the author learned to use new programs like Photoshop and InDesign to professionally edit photos and design pages. They also used Illustrator to customize fonts and create a unique masthead. Additionally, the author gained knowledge around studio photography through setting up lights and cameras to shoot professional photos for the magazine cover and spreads.
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Within their preliminary task, the student ensured they followed basic magazine codes and conventions but realized their implementation was amateurish. For the full product, the student paid closer attention to how design elements like color and layout impacted the professional look and feel of the magazine. Technologically, the student also improved by learning Photoshop and Quark techniques to create a more polished product, rather than the basic approach taken for the preliminary task.
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Within my preliminary task, I ensured that I used basic codes and conventions but my magazine looked amateurish with too much color. For my main task, I paid more attention to how I laid out my magazine so that it had a more professional look and feel. My preliminary front cover was also very basic, but for my main task I spent more time arranging the cover to better represent the genre. Additionally, I have greatly improved at using technology like Photoshop and Quark to design my magazine more professionally instead of basic, by carefully using techniques in Photoshop and having help to rearrange text and images in Quark according to magazine conventions.
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The document discusses the various tools and technologies used to create a magazine, including Publisher, Photoshop, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and a camera. Publisher was particularly useful for laying out pages, adding photos, and creating spreads. Photoshop allowed editing of photos by changing backgrounds, colors, and cropping. Word was best for writing text. PowerPoint aided market research and data presentation. A camera provided necessary photos, while the internet facilitated research of fonts and successful magazines. Overall, these tools collectively enabled the effective production of the magazine.
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The document discusses how the author's preliminary magazine creation work improved after conducting additional research and planning for their final product. For the preliminary work, the author only copied the basic layout of an existing magazine without thorough consideration of audience or conventions. However, for the final product the author implemented research into magazine design and planning of tasks. This enhanced the final product and made it more professional-looking compared to the preliminary work. The document also describes various skills the author gained from creating the preliminary work that helped improve their final magazine, such as effective use of lighting, photo editing software, image alignment, and page layout.
Question 3
Bauer Media Group would be a good publisher for the magazine because they have experience publishing popular magazines for females, unlike other publishers who focus on magazines for males or older, upper-class audiences. Specifically, Bauer has successfully launched magazines for females in the UK like Bella and also publishes magazines like Cosmopolitan and Bazar. They aim their magazines at a broad, mainstream female audience, as opposed to magazines that may not appeal to the target audience. Bauer's experience launching new magazines and appealing to females makes them a suitable choice to publish the magazine.
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Evaluation task 7
The student felt they progressed in their skills and application of conventions from their preliminary magazine cover to their final magazine cover and contents pages. For the final pieces, they used more techniques like varying font sizes and styles to make elements stand out, included things like barcodes to seem more professional, and chose fonts and content that would appeal more to their target audience of students. They also learned skills like proper image editing and formatting to create magazine pages that follow conventions and look polished. Overall, they felt their understanding of techniques and ability to create professional-looking magazine pages developed between the two assignments.
Evaluation
The document evaluates the cover and content pages of a college magazine. For the cover page, the student used Photoshop to include conventions like a main image with direct eye contact, a plain background without distractions, price and barcode at the bottom, and cover lines describing featured content. Strengths are that Photoshop is easy to use, but weaknesses include lack of experience leading to less clarity. For the content page, the student used Quark to include subheadings, descriptions, prominent images, and clear text layout. While Quark allows various techniques, it is difficult to learn and more practice was needed for additional images.
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The document summarizes the ways in which a media product follows and challenges conventions. It discusses using a masthead, main image positioned according to the rule of thirds, and consistent color scheme. It also challenges conventions slightly by including part of the magazine name on the contents page. The document also discusses learning about technologies like using Photoshop to edit photos, Microsoft Word to construct the magazine, and storing work online with blogger.
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The document discusses evaluating a magazine cover and contents page design project. It provides feedback on how the masthead could be bigger on the cover to stand out more. It also suggests centering the main cover image better and using a more precise medium close up shot. For the contents page, it notes colors could be added to match the cover better and the masthead "Contents" should be larger along with adding an issue date and website. Overall it reflects on using Photoshop and Quark Xpress software and finds Prezi and other technologies easy to use for presenting the project work.
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1) The student learned important skills for creating a successful magazine, such as professional layout, composition of photographs, and photo editing.
2) Their final product showed improvement in taking higher quality photographs using proper lighting and rules of composition. They also learned to use photo editing tools like Photoshop.
3) Through the process, the student gained a better understanding of design principles like the Gutenberg diagram and how to address a target audience through an effective magazine layout and content.
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Question 7
They note several specific improvements, including adding taglines on both sides of the cover rather than just one, including a barcode, better positioning of images, using effects like coloring text, and using props. They also learned how to use Photoshop better to manipulate images and make text styles like bold. Their contents page became more professional by cropping backgrounds, limiting photos, and maintaining a consistent style with fonts. Overall, their knowledge of InDesign and skills like finding appropriate professional images improved, allowing them to create a magazine that better appeals to the target audience.
Question 7
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Evaluation - TASK 8
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Looking back at your preliminary task, what
The document discusses what the author has learned from their preliminary task to their final magazine project in Photoshop. They learned new Photoshop skills like making pictures look professional and giving sell lines a 3D effect. They also became more confident experimenting with tools and being more creative. As a result, their final magazine stood out more and looked better than the preliminary version.
Question Seven Final Draft
The document discusses what the author learned from their preliminary magazine project to their final magazine project. They learned to have models look at the camera from researching other magazines. They also learned the importance of planning and considering layout, which led to a more sophisticated final product. The author gained skills in Photoshop and learned to edit images between the preliminary and final projects. Overall, the author believes their final magazine much better fulfills the requirements compared to their preliminary task.
Evaluation 7 final
The student has learned many improvements in photography, design, and magazine production from their preliminary school magazine task to the final magazine product. Specifically:
1) Their photography skills improved through learning techniques like depth of field, lighting, framing models effectively, and using Photoshop tools.
2) The design of the magazine improved by using more professional fonts, strategically placing cover lines, and designing a contents page influenced by existing magazines.
3) Their overall knowledge of magazine elements like page count, layout, and price improved to create a more polished final magazine.
Evaluation of school magazine
The document discusses Phoebe Rowlands' process of creating a magazine front cover and contents page for her school magazine. Some key points:
- She followed many codes and conventions of magazines but left some out that she plans to include in her music magazine, such as the full masthead and date on the barcode.
- Photos were taken with a camera and edited in Photoshop to design the cover and contents page.
- Strengths were following most conventions, but weaknesses included some missing elements.
- Technologies like the camera and Photoshop worked well but learning them took extra time.
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Evaluation of college magazine
- 1. Evaluation of college magazine MY product uses some conventions of a magazine, one of which is that uses images with direct address like a professional magazine does. It also has a masthead on the top of the page like all magazines do. IT has one main image on the page witch is a standard convention for a magazine. However it does not include an issue date or barcode like what are normal conventions for a magazine. In the contents page it has 3 columns what is a convention to have in a magazine contents however you can also have 2 or 4 columns. Also in the bottom right it has a page number, this is not a convention to have for the contents, however I felt like it fitted in. to a normal magazine contents there are things in there not added to give it that professional look that I think I should of included. To construct my magazine I used Photoshop, this for me is a completely new piece of media software and is very tough to understand. However after some time I completed the magazine using it after some amount of practice. Also to take the picture I used a professional camera and used proper shots rather than just taking a picture on my phone. My strengths in the product is that I have followed some conventions to try and make it look professional, however there could still be more added to give it more of a professional look, which will come in time when I experience and study more magazines and get used to using Photoshop more as at this time I find it hard to do so. Another weakness would be for my image as I don’t know how to get that perfect shot yet, and then take it onto the computer and edit it to give it a better more professional look.